Links show local file path instead of truncated link

We use SharePoint as our source control, and we each have a copy of our projects saved locally on our machine.

I recently found out that anytime I create links, it is showing the local file path on my computer instead of creating a truncated link as it normally would. This has been going on since January, and it lead to over 60 broken links and a file that couldn't be published or closed.

Before this started, anytime I created a link, It would show a truncated link, as you would expect: <a href = "../../filename.html"</a>

However, now when I create a link, it is showing the file path for my locally saved version: <a href= "C:user.name/documents/helpfiles/area/prod/subject/filename.html." </a>

The funny thing is, if I open the link in the RH Hyperlink editor, I just have to double click the exact same topic that is already selected in the destination window

and —*poof* — it magically fixes itself.

What the heck is going on?